Surgical Technologist - Surgery Main OR - FT - Day

Full time, 12-hour day shift, 36 hours per week. Non-exempt position.

About the role

The Surgical Technologist handles the instruments, supplies, and equipment before, during, and after the surgical procedure. This position has an understanding of the procedure being performed and anticipates the needs of the surgeon. This position has the necessary knowledge and ability to ensure quality patient care during the operative procedure and is constantly on vigil for maintenance of the sterile field.

Surgical technologists at this facility scrub across multiple service lines, including cardiovascular, neurosurgery, general surgery, robotics, orthopedics trauma, sports medicine, total joints, plastics, urology, gynecology, ENT, ophthalmology, and podiatry.

Responsibilities

• Checks supplies and equipment needed for the surgical procedure as per preference card.
• Anticipates problem areas and adjusts instrumentation to individual patient.
• Maintains highest standard of sterile technique and promptly reports any compromise.
• Sets up sterile table with instruments, supplies, and equipment prior to patient entry.
• Mixes and labels all medications under the supervision of the RN Circulator.
• Performs appropriate counts with the RN Circulator prior to the operation and before the incision is closed.
• Hands instruments and supplies to surgeon, holds retractors, cuts sutures, and performs tasks as directed by surgeon during the operation. (Wound closure is specific to Certified First Assistant duties and referenced in the Certified First Assistant job description.)
• Assists team members to place and position patient on O.R. table.
• Places sterile dressings on patient following surgery.
• Provides timely, accurate, and concise reports on all patients to oncoming personnel.
• Uses PreKlenz and prepares instruments for transport to decontamination.
• Fosters positive working relationships with all health care customers.
• Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees.
• Helps with inner core duties, including writing name on white boards in the room to identify as inner core help.
• Re-stocks room supplies.
• Follows all department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training, and requirements of Stormont Vail Health.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree or graduation from a Surgical Technologist Program.
• 6 months of surgical technologist experience in the operating room may be substituted for education.
• Recent surgical technologist experience in the operating room (6 months).

Skills and abilities

• Fosters positive working relationships with all health care customers.
• Demonstrates awareness of self-responsibility for own practice.
• Demonstrates cost effectiveness in use of supplies and equipment.

Licenses and certifications

• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) – AST preferred.
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) – NBSTSA preferred.

Physical demands

• Balancing: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Carrying: Frequently (3-5 hours)
• Climbing (ladders): Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Climbing (stairs): Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Crawling: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Crouching: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Driving (automatic or standard): Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Eye/hand/foot coordination: Frequently (3-5 hours)
• Feeling: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Grasping (fine motor): Frequently (3-5 hours)
• Grasping (gross hand): Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Handling: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Hearing: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Kneeling: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Lifting: Occasionally (1-3 hours) up to 100 lbs
• Operate foot controls: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Pulling: Occasionally (1-3 hours) up to 50 lbs
• Pushing: Occasionally (1-3 hours) up to 50 lbs
• Reaching (forward): Occasionally (1-3 hours) up to 50 lbs
• Reaching (overhead): Occasionally (1-3 hours) up to 50 lbs
• Repetitive motions: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Sitting: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Standing: Frequently (3-5 hours)
• Stooping: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Talking: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Walking: Occasionally (1-3 hours)

May assist with lifting patients.

Working conditions

• Burn: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Chemical: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Combative patients: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Dusts: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Electrical: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Explosive: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Extreme temperatures: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Infectious diseases: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Mechanical: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Needle stick: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Noise/sounds: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Other atmospheric conditions: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Poor ventilation, fumes, and/or gases: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Radiant energy: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Risk of exposure to blood and body fluids: Occasionally (1-3 hours)
• Risk of exposure to hazardous drugs: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Hazards (other): Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Vibration: Rarely (less than 1 hour)
• Wet and/or humid: Rarely (less than 1 hour)

Position is patient-facing. Workspace is on-site with no remote work capability.